Presto

ESTABLISHED 1854
THE
BRADBURY PIANO
FOR ITS
ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE
FOR ITS
INESTIMABLE AGENCY VALUE
THE CHOICE OF
Representative Dealers the World Over
Now Produced in Several
New Models
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Factory
Leominster,
Mass.
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PRESTO
October 20, 1923
Executive Offices
138th St. and Walton Ave.
New York
Division W. P. HAINES & CO., Inc.
For a
Bigger and Better
Business
There is nothing to compare
with the complete line of
M. SCHULZ CO.
The Players are RIGHT in
everything that means
money to the dealers and
satisfaction to the public.
You will never do anything better
than when you get in touch with
M. SCHULZ CO.
711 Milwaukee Avenua
CHICAGO
SOUTHERN BRANCHt 730 C«wfl« Bid*. ATLANTA, GA.
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STEGER & SONS
Piano Manufacturing Company
Manufacturers of
STEGER Pianos and Player Pianos
REED & Sons Pianos and Player Pianos
SINGER Pianos and Player Pianos
THOMPSON Pianos and Player Pianos
ARTEMIS Pianos and Player Pianos
STEGER Stools, Benches, Music Cabinets
STEGER Phonographs
STEGER Polish
General Office* and Salesrooms: Steger Build-
ing, Wabash and Jackson, Chicago.
Factories: Steger, Illinois, where the "Lincoln"
and "Dixie" Highways Meet.
PRIZES FOR BEST
MUSICAL SLOGANS
Contest Brought Forth a Host of Music Lovers
Who Found Words with Which to Give
Expression to Their Love of
Sweet Sound.
NAMES OF WINNERS
Twenty-six Piano Manufacturers Contributed, and
Many Makers of Small Goods and
Music Publishers.
The awards have been announced in the Home
Music Contest under the combined auspices of the
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce, and the
national council of Better Homes in America.
The winners have the privilege of choosing from
what make of instruments or musical supplies they
prefer from prizes contributed by members of the
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce. Such a
choice will constitute an interesting indorsement sus-
ceptible of exploitation through advertising.
Highest Prize Winners.
The winner of the first prize, a $500 piano or
allowance of that amount on a piano to be selected
from the list of twenty-six, is H. G. Van Closter, of
Kansas City, Mo. His statement follows: Music
makes better homes because:
"Dance music lightens labor and speeds play. The
performance of concerted music, whether vocal or
instrumental, fosters harmony and co-operation.
Music of sentiment eloquently expresses the spirit
of each tender relationship of the home, and makes
very real those intimate emotions which timid hearts
seldom dare express in words."
The second prize, a $200 phonograph or allowance
on an instrument to be selected from a list of seven,
was awarded to Katherine Hustvedt, of Decorah,
Towa. Miss Hustvedt says music makes better homes
because—
"Music, the most social of all the arts, welds the
family and its friends together in an enjoyment
which can be shared by the tiniest tot and the oldest
grandparent. It is a trouble-chaser, a gloom-dis-
peller, an electric tonic of high power. It tones you
up physically, mentally an aesthetically."
John M. Williams of East San Diego, Calif., win-
ner of the third prize, has this to say: "Music makes
better homes because it: 1. Cultivates the imagina-
tion. 2. Appeals to the higher emotions. 3.
Awakens slumbering desires and ambitions. 4. Ce-
ments home ties. 5. Arouses patriotism. 6. De-
velops the rythmic sense. 7. Encourages the faint-
hearted. 6. Cultivates such social activities as danc-
ing, singing. 9. Awakens the religious side of the
listener. 10. Is an outlet to the emotions of happi-
ness. 11. Sadness. 12. Unexpressed aspirations."
The contest was judged upon: (1) The reasons
given why music makes better homes; (2) the choice
of ten selections best suited to support these, reasons.
The committee on awards who judged the entries
included: Mrs. John F. Lyons, president, National
Federation of Music Clubs; Mrs. M. E. Oberndorfer,
music chairman, General Federation of Women's
Clubs; C. M. Tremaine, director, National Bureau for
the Advancement of Music; Kenneth S. Clark, Bu-
reau of Community Music, Community Service.
Complete List of Winners.
A complete list of winners follows: First prize,
H. G. Van Closter, 510 East Eighth street, Kansas
City, Mo.; second, Miss Katherine Hustvedt, 401
Grove street, Decorah, Iowa; third, John M. Wil-
liams, 3683 Reed avenue, E. San Diego, Calif.; fourth,
Miss Helen Walters, 3560 Grim street, San Diego,
Calif.; fifth, James Potter Keough, 808 Lexington
avenue, New York City; sixth, Miss Katherine
Nicholson, 226 Yanell avenue, S. E., Grand Rapids,
Mich.; seventh, W. L. Thickstun, Central College,
Conway, Ark.; eighth, Malcolm L. Cobb, 353 Central
avenue, New Haven, Conn.; ninth, George Ashton,
122 East 60th street, New York City; tenth, Miss
Elizabeth K. Chamberlain, 123 Bellaire avenue, Louis-
ville, Ky.; eleventh, Mrs. Laura Schubert, 301 9th
street, St. Charles, Mo.; twelfth, Louis Harrison, 608
Fulton street, Salisbury, N. C.
The Prizes.
The following prizes were offered through the co-
operation of the Music Industries Chamber of Com-
merce :
First prize, $500 piano or an allowance of $500 on
any piano or playerpiano to be selected by the win-
ner from the following list: Acoustigrande, Biddle,
Brambach Baby Grand, Cable-Nelson, A. B. Chase,
Chickering, Emerson, J. & C. Fischer, Hardman,
Hallet & Davis, Haines Bros., Jacob Brothers, James
& Holmstrom, Wra. Knabe & Co., Kohler & Camp-
bell, Lindeman & Sons, Mansfield, Mathushek, Mil-
ton, Poole, Steger & Sons, Sterling, Story & Clark,
Weaver, Wing & Son, York.
Second prize, $200 phonograph, or an allowance of
$200 on any phonograph to be selected by the next
winner.
Ten prizes, $25 each, allowance in musical mer-
chandise to be selected from the following list by the
next ten winners: Music rolls, Connorized, Q R S,
United States; phonograph records, Brunswick, Co-
lumbia, Edison, Gennett, Odeon, Okeh, Pathe, Victor;
sheet music, Boosey & Co., John Church Co., Chas.
H. Ditson & Co., Carl Fischer, Fred Fisher, Inc., J.
Fischer & Bro., Harold Flammer, Gamble Hinged
Music Co., Hinds, Hayden & Eldridge, Shapiro,
Bernstein & Co., Inc., G. Schirmer, Inc.; small goods,
C. Bruno & Son, Buegeleisen & Jacobson, C. G. Conn,
Ltd., Gibson Musical String Co., Fred Gretsch Mfg.
Co., M. Hohner, Leedy Mfg. Co., Lyon & Healy, C.
Meisel, Inc.
BIG STORE TAKES PRIDE
IN ITS MUSIC DEPARTMENT
Goldsmith Company, of Memphis, Has Built Up
Large Trade in Martin Band Instruments.
The increasing demand and widening popularity of
musical instruments is evidenced by the growing at-
tention they are receiving from department stores.
A recent illustration of this point is a connection made
by Goldsmith & Sons Department Store, of Memphis,
Tenn., with the Martin Band Instrument Company,
of Elkhart, Ind., by which Goldsmith & Sons will ex-
pand their stock to meet an ever-enlarging demand
for musical instruments. David Levy, one of the
executives of the Goldsmith Co., in speaking of this
arrangement, said:
"We have been in business for more than half a
century and during that time have built up an ex-
cellent reputation for high-grade merchandise. Con-
sequently when we determined to enlarge our music
department, so as to include band instruments, we
had every reason to believe that Martin Handcraft
Instruments measured up to our general standard."
Goldsmith & Sons recently celebrated their 53rd
anniversary.
William Sturgeon, who is in direct
charge of the music department, is a musician of note
and brings to the merchandising of musical instru-
ments a wealth of knowledge gained by actual band
experience.
POPULAR PIANO TRAVELER
STRICKEN WITH PARALYSIS
Representative of Srraube Piano Co. Suffers Stroke
at Ft. Wayne While on Trip.
W. S. Robertson, who covers Ohio, Indiana and
Pennsylvania for the Straube Piano Co., of Ham-
mond, Ind., is seriously ill at the Hope Methodist
Hospital, Ft. Wayne, Ind., following a paralytic
stroke, which he suffered a few days ago.
Mr. Robertson is well known in the industry, and
numbers among his close personal friends many of
the leading retailers of the Middle West. He was in
Ft. Wayne on business when taken ill.
PROGRESSIVE OREGON DEALER.
Stanton Rowell, of Grant's Pass, Oregon, is a wide-
awake piano merchant who has just moved into his
own new reinforced concrete building, which is 50
xl50 feet, at 212-214 South Sixth street. The show
windows are square, and are 8-feet deep. The floor
is of concrete, and there are four record rooms 8 feet
6 inches by 9 feet 6 inches, and two machine rooms,
12 feet by 9 feet 6 inches. By the use of prism glass
for ceiling, under wire glass skylights the building
has a wonderfully light set of six booths. The piano
store part of Mr. Rowell's establishment is on the
corner, and the small goods and records are in the
inside store.
A Q R S ENTHUSIAST.
Rudolph Frachman, of the Rialto Music Shop, 330
S. State street, Chicago, has four players demonstrat-
ing the Q R S music rolls and, on account of the
rapid strides in his business, has had to enlarge his
space. Mr. Frachman is the only Q R S dealer in
Chicago that carries a complete line of both domestic
and foreign rolls.
NEW WISCONSIN STORE.
Art Hunsader, for several years manager of the
musical merchandise department in the M. F. Peters
store, Mauston, Wis., is making plans to open an
exclusive music store in that place. Pianos and talk-
ing machines will be carried.
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